soi 3 modern poets

soi 3 (pronounced soi săam, in Thai) aims to promote modern poets writing in English, and to celebrate contemporary artists of diverse inclinations.

In addition to publishing first collections by emerging poets, soi 3 plans a significant list of collections, selections, anthologies, and contemporary art books.

And don't forget to join the mailing list via our homepage for further details of the 2009/10 soi 3 gold publishing list, as it's announced.

Lemon Shark

Luke Beesley

This powerful first collection from one of Australia's major emerging poets explores the grace and sensuality of language, with particular attention to Queensland sunlight, surfaces, and an intimate place within conversations ... read more

Authentic Local

Pam Brown

Pam Brown’s poetry attends to the soundbites and transitoriness of contemporary Australian life. Her dazzling wordplay gives us glistening souvenirs of overblown politik-speak, uncontrolled Western consumption, and the daze of the habitual and housetrained ...
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Our Life is a Box. / Prayers Without a God

MTC Cronin

The latest collection from award-winning and prolific poet MTC (Margie) Cronin is a daring and unorthodox twin-volume that offers two books, or rather, the same two books in rearranged language ... read more

Universal Andalusia

B.R. Dionysius

The third published book of Brisbane-based poet, editor and arts administrator B.R. Dionysius, Universal Andalusia is a verse novel that traces the backpacking holiday through southern Europe and India by two Australian thirtysomethings ... read more

Necessity: Poems 1996-2006

Barry Hill

The fifth published volume of poetry by acclaimed poet, editor, novelist, essayist, and librettist Barry Hill, Necessity is a transcendent celebration of freedoms - social, spiritual, personal - in the tradition of the finest lyrical ... read more

Among the regulars

Andy Jackson

A polished and assured collection, so radiant with insight and sureness of touch that it’s impossible to remain unmoved. Andy Jackson has the uncanny knack of seeing humanity, like a burning filament, underneath what appears at first mundane ... read more

Wren Lines: Selected Poems and Drawings Volume 1

Billy Jones

Drawing from Jones' seven published works spanning 1975 to 1993, Wren Lines is the remarkable record of a creative life spent simply, and deeply. With more than 200 pages of poems and 25 elegant illustrations ... read more

We Will Disappear

David Prater

The first full-length collection from poet and editor David Prater, We Will Disappear navigates the landscapes of loneliness and solitude, drawing upon ten years of Prater's transformative travelogues and engaging elegies ... read more